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Penny
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HEY! I think I made that!

But the way I made it I wanted shimmery sparkley not a solidishy colour. I used carmine with aztec gold mica and hot pink mica to get the colour. So… I’d use a tube lip gloss base with carmine and some brown oxide and a tich of yellow to get that colour. The shine seems to come from the oils (perhaps sweet almond or jojoba or even cocoa butter I find gives me that nice shine), and colourants.

Mica’s will lightly tint your lips (barely barely tint them unless you add in a bunch but that sometimes can cause more issues than it is worth), but from the swatch on the paper, it looks like they used oxides to give you a fuller coverage of colour.

What are the ingredients? I think I hear a blog post to hack this.